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Turns out Schumer was laying in wait and stripped out the pro-gun provisions at the last moment. Whoops!

To paraphrase Eric Stratton, you fucked up. You trusted them!

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has withdrawn its support for the Manchin-Toomey alternative background check measure because a key amendment for restoration of firearms rights is not being considered.

Our support for this measure was contingent on several key provisions, the cornerstone of which was a rights restoration provision that is not on the schedule for consideration. This is not a reflection against Senators Joe Manchin or Pat Toomey, who are staunch Second Amendment advocates.

Maybe. But that just means they are political useful idiots, as was the CCRKBA.

Congrats.

And good luck scrambling at the last moment to take back your support. Once you gave it, that’s all the press needed to hear. They sold that far and wide.

They’ll report on your withdraw of support later, after the voting is done. Which by my watch is in about 40 minutes, no? But by all means, continue on with the late stage OUTRAGE!

[…] it appears the Democratic leadership in the Senate was opposed to letting this important consideration come up for a vote. We told everyone including a number of senators, that while there are many pro-gun rights provisions added to the main body of the bill, our support was contingent on this additional amendment coming to the floor. When we say something, we mean it.

Rights restoration has been withheld from American citizens for more than two decades, ever since Sen. Charles Schumer – when he was still in the House of Representatives – successfully strong-armed a provision to withdraw funding for rights restoration investigations by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Senators Manchin and Toomey are not to blame for this, as they have been negotiating in good faith throughout this process. But Schumer and other anti-gun Democrats are continuing their campaign of demagoguery in order to permanently disqualify as many Americans as possible from being able to exercise their fundamental rights under the Second Amendment.

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If the Manchin-Toomey alternative now goes down to defeat, Democrats in the Senate, led by Harry Reid, have only themselves to blame. While the Manchin-Toomey alternative has a significant number of gains for gun owners, it will not include this key provision, upon which our support was dependent.

We cannot, in clear conscience, continue to support a measure that will not include this critical relief component. If Democrats like Schumer thought we could be flim flammed on this, they were wrong.

You keep telling yourself that, Chairman Gottlieb. You shamed yourself and your organization by pretending that anything MAIG or Schumer or Holder or Obama could have ever supported would provide relief for gun owners.

Obama sat on the Joyce Foundation. Holder is on record as saying Americans have to be brain washed so that they can have their guns taken away. And Schumer and Reid, by your own admission here, are snakes and deal in nothing but bad faith.

It’s who they are. It’s what they do.

You got played. As did Toomey. And no, I don’t think Manchin innocent in all this: he knew what the end game was. As did many pro-Second Amendment supporters who you harmed with the cover you gave these gun grabbers.

Shortly before the vote, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he would support the background check plan, saying that while he was a staunch defender of Second Amendment rights, the bipartisan proposal is “not overly burdensome or unconstitutional.”

“Is this a perfect solution? No. will it prevent all future acts of gun violence? Of course not,” McCain said. “Would it have prevented the most recent acts of gun violence? In all likelihood, no. But it is reasonable, and it is my firm conviction that it is constitutional.”

I wonder if CCRKBA is shocked — SHOCKED! — that he’s not really all that pro gun after all!

Blah blah blah. That sensible Geraghty fellow explained all that days ago.

I mean, what would you rather have, a guy who’s going to vote to protect some of your rights some of the time, or a guy who’s going to vote to take away most of your rights most of the time? You need to stop confusing the issue by insisting on clarity here. Dirty purist.

Anybody hear the subnormals at NPR this afternoon? I did, where I learned that “shame on you” hollered post-vote from the Senate balcony was newsworthy. Because the NRA is a hive of lying, lobbying, moneyed villainy, QED.

That bipartisan radio Pravda invests more emotional capital on quoting one another’s “liberalism” than a room full of Baghdad Bob sock puppets.

Jesus. Schumer is a fucking disaster. Honestly, I was out picking up my son but I recorded C-SPAN an he actually spoke against Cornyn’s amendment to allow CCW holders to carrry in other stats that allow CCW, and Schumer’s response was to say it’s “despicable,” that “police wouldn’t know who has a CCW,” and besides, criminals would go out and get them.

Under such a law, if I have a concealed carry permit in Minnesota (which I do), I can carry in all 50 states, including anti-gun bastions like New York. The vote on that measure is expected to be close. To me, however, it seems like another instance of conservatives’ selective devotion to federalism. In my view, a state should be able to enforce whatever restrictions on gun use and possession within its borders that it chooses, as long as those restrictions are constitutional.

- During his carefully prepared piss and moan speech, the biggest whopper, that “90% of the American public supports gun control”, (the figure is barely 4%), Bumbledick is showing that he’s poking his head out of the Progressive bubble enough to see his dreams of an American Socialist Utopia go up in smoke.

– Get used to it little man. There’s an abundance of it in your future.

– One upside to the misery of this 8 years of political insanity is watching him and his pandercrats fail.

Yes, Howie is quite right. This was his chance, and now he’s let a crisis go to waste. All those beautiful, bloody little corpses and he’s gotten jack shit out of it except for the end of Mario Cuomo’s presidential ambitions.

- Since the FEDs also cancelled the 9pm presser things have quieted down. From the reports trickling out it appears they have a lot of crime scene related evidence, but can’t make a positive ID on the perp yet.

– Also possible they’re on his trail and don’t want to tip him, but if he has access to news, he already knows what they know.

– Meanwhile a Miss. man has been charged with mailing the Racine laced letters.

- One comment a police source made is they’re pretty sure there’s more than one person involved. The pressure cooker bombs were too big to hide in one bag, and anyone carrying two or three large bags would attract attention. Remember, our resident Bostonian reported the place was crawling with cops and bomb sniffing dogs.

Drudge has a boatload of pictures he got from 4Chan. There appear to be three guys, not two and they look ME. Go figure.

4chan link . Two of the guys with backpacks (one white, one ME-looking) look an awful lot like security (dressed exactly the same – khaki pants, tan shoes, black jackets and packs). The white guy even has what looks like some kind of pass (press pass, security tag) hanging from his jacket.

Tonight, a massive fire in a fertilizer plant north of Waco, Texas was not brought under control by the firefighters in time, and it caused an explosion that the news said partially leveled four blocks.

When I saw the report they talked about the explosion for about three minutes before the thought to mention the firefighters trying to put it out for a hour or so. I guess they wanted to get people speculating about it being an attack instead of an industrial accident. I dunno, but it was weird.

And right on cue, our old friend Erik Loomis is there to explain that you’re just gonna get a certain amount of fertilizer factory explosions in a non-union state.

Because let’s face it, the Professional Left sort of fell down on their whole “well, if our preferred policies were in place this sort of thing would never happen” job, with regards to the Boston explosion.

Cotto: Aside from the obvious partisan and philosophical differences, what would you say is the greatest difference between the left-leaning and right-leaning blogospheres?

Goldstein: The right-leaning blogosphere tends to be far more self-critical. It runs as a kind of far-flung debating society — or at least, it did. Lately there’s been pressure to coalesce around a given set of political narratives, to “rebrand,” which would follow the left-leaning model, under which messages are disseminated using a top down, “talking points” model.

It’s no accident that on a number of occasions the left has been caught organizing its messaging, whether through secret email groups or, as we saw thanks to an open mic before a Romney press event, through an active collusion of activist journalists looking to drive an agreed-upon narrative.

A major battle on the right, it seems to me, comes from conservative resistance to just such a model. It turns out Hobbits aren’t terribly gracious when they’re told to get their asses in line. Who knew?

(Via Instapundit.)

I still dislike your opinions on illegal immigrants, but credit should be given where it’s due. Goldstein is all over the web today. Kudos.

Look what our side had to battle: billionaire bloomburg and his propoganda, the 1% president, most media outlets, Hollywood, the grieving newtown parents as political props….

You neglect to mention ‘our side’ too. Voting to bring this mess to the floor in the first place were Sens. Lamar Alexander, Kelly Ayotte, Richard Burr, Saxby Chambliss, Tom Coburn, Susan Collins, Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham, Dean Heller, John Hoeven, Johnny Isakson, Mark Kirk, John McCain, Pat Toomey and Roger Wicker. Republicans every last one of them. Don’t ever get the notion that tyranny only exists on the progressive side of the aisle. Every last one of those turds listed needs to get removed from D.C. How after the last week can you think that R=good?

I think Schumer’s run is over. And I’m increasingly confident that New York’s run is coming to an end, too.

In the past, what made NY “great” was its iconic image as our Financial Capitol. Well, that image doesn’t fit anymore. If it weren’t for DHS port-security funds seized from the “fly-over” states, and for the Fedsuries insistence on laundering its QE’s and your withheld taxes thru Schumer’s financial dynasties, the city’d have to make do on its tourism and restaurants, and, well, the Devil can only wear SO MUCH Prada.

Methinks NY’s reign is thru. One threatening thought is, what if Phoenix decides to compete with NY by opening a new US stock exchange? I think PHX’s newness, and it’s burgeoning economy, sitting astride the SW’s pulsing freeways linking Texas with Nevada with California with Mexico with Colorado as it does, represents an immediate threat to NY stodgy, hide-bound guards.

An aside: the wonky, stale pols of Connecticut that live off of NY’s reinvested jetsam and that voted for “sensible” gun-control measures so unthinkingly would dry up like a zit under Clearasil if NYC lost its monopoly claim to being America’s financial center.

I’ve got nothing against New Yorkers, but their heads have gotten too big since the hey-days of the eighties, and they need to deflate their egos a bit to meet new realities. It’s wakey-wakey time for Schumer et al.

The headlines are kind of misleading. S. 649 is still alive and well, thank you. The Manchin/Toomey amendment failed, but it was only one of seven amendments to that bill to fail yesterday.

S. 649 could still be passed. An amendment very much like Manchin/Toomey could still pass, should sufficient leverage or quid pro quo be invoked. This isn’t the end; not by a long shot. 649 is just a vehicle for whatever combination of amendments and support come together for a vote for passage.

Which isn’t to minimize, certainly. On the contrary: this could just be a head-fake.

They’re only trading floors afterall, and, unless you think the NYSE is “too big too fail,” NY’s bourse is not immune from the tides of change.

As is, the QE’s are corrupting the NYSE’s market mechanism to the point that noone knows the value of the stocks they’re buying.

This provides an opening to an upstart start-up not laboring under NYC’s oppressive regulations, and perhaps, using new web-based technology in a scattered design, the upstart won’t be prone to the vulnerabilities the NY exchanges exhibit to terrorism. And, being sited outside urban democrats’ domains, the new bourse may escape urban liberals’ capricious salary limits on its new managers.

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